Manual gate level crossing on the North West route (ELR DSE).
Information only — always follow the signals and barriers at the crossing. Predictions may be wrong.
| 07:05 | 🚄 1E50 | Chester → Leeds Up (W → E) | +1 min |
| 07:05 | 🚄 1K04 | York → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (E → W) | on time |
| 07:09 | 🚄 1M69 | Lancaster → Manchester Airport Up (W → E) | passed |
| 07:13 | 🚆 2F17 | Manchester Airport → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (E → W) | on time |
| 07:17 | 🚄 1K09 | Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML → Hull Up (W → E) | approaching |
| 07:22 | 🚄 1D70 | Leeds → Chester Down (E → W) | on time |
| 07:25 | 🚆 2G91 | Manchester Victoria → Wigan North Western Down (E → W) | active |
| 07:34 | 🚄 9M05 | Newcastle → Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML Down (E → W) | on time |
| 07:36 | 🚄 1H80 | Holyhead → Manchester Airport Up (W → E) | +1 min |
| 07:42 | 🚆 2A11 | Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML → Manchester Airport Up (W → E) | +4 min |
| 07:44 | 🚄 9E07 | Liverpool Lime Street HL/ML → Newcastle Up (W → E) | active |
On today’s timetable, Astley crossing is predicted to be closed for about 9 h 47 min between 06:00 and 22:00, across roughly 107 closures. The longest single predicted closure is 11 minutes. Freight paths scheduled “as required” — most don’t run on any given day — aren’t counted here; when one does run, the live timeline above shows it.
Longest closure so far today: 12.2 min (06:57–07:09, 4 trains), timed from trains actually seen on the signalling wire — the window edges use the same per-type margins as the forecast, since barrier positions aren't in any feed we can read.
Closures cluster around 07:49–08:49 in the morning and around 16:49–17:49 in the afternoon. Gaps between closures are longest outside those windows. Other days run a different timetable, so the peaks move.
Astley is a manual gate crossing (MG) on the Manchester Oxford Road–Wigan North Western line (North West route · ELR DSE). A signaller or crossing keeper closes the gates across the road ahead of each train. Forecasts here combine the working timetable with live train-movement data (and live signalling where the crossing has it), so they reflect actual running including delays and freight — though they can still be wrong when the network is disrupted.
We score this page against what actually happened on the railway — over the last 7 days that covered 1,367 trains through this crossing.
100.0% of observed passes were being warned about on this page when they passed, and 99.0% of the warnings we could verify came true.
Typical timing error was ±172s (9 in 10 within 516s). This scores when trains pass — barrier movements aren't in the public feeds we can score against.